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...Harris, she told me, "Japan could be like North Korea" today. Now there's a sobering thought. It helped to explain the Perry and Harris-mania that grips the town. By that I mean the "black ship" manholes in the streets, the Perry Aqua Dome at the Shimoda Aquarium and the dramatization of the Harris and Okichi story in tourist literature. The place even celebrates a black ship festival every May. Town officials are busily planning for 2004 celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Perry's landing in Shimoda Bay and there is also an annual ceremony at Ryosenji temple...
...Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications, was arrested in New York City with his two sons and two other former executives for allegedly committing hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud at the bankrupt cable company. The Doll Takes A Fall Happily, most of us forgot about Danish pop group Aqua and its 1997 hit Barbie Girl long ago. But not Barbie's makers at Mattel. They sued, saying the song sullied Barbie's image. A U.S. judge last week ruled that, as a cultural icon, Barbie is fair game. Europe Gets Defensive So much for the moral high ground. Despite...
...Columbus; then she just runs a brush through her hair. "I'm coming from a tomboy type of position," she says. She changes into black pants that fit tight over her skinny legs and one of the 12 chiffon shirts she had tailored in emerald, salmon and aqua hues. Has she had her colors done? She gives a withering look...
...twelve paintings are arranged in a narrative sequence, reading from left to right, that engulfs the viewer in a virtually full circle. In eight of the panels, the canvas is filled like the sea, with varying washes of aqua and occupied with skeletal and archaic linear motifs of ships that are often obscured by explosions of saturated and fiery color. The exploding forms that litter these canvases surge with textured layers of gold, yellow, orange, magenta, crimson and deep purple that seem to leak and drip like rivulets of blood trickling down the painting’s surface. Many...
...vacation resorts of Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, the sands are as white and the sky as blue as anyone can remember. As usual, angelfish and sea tortoises swim lazily in the aqua sea; hardened lava cuts a black path down the volcanic mountainsides. Only one thing is missing: crowds of Japanese tourists...